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UNITED STATES 1,506,055 PATENT OFF-ICE.

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TICKET-PRINTING- MECEAHISM.

Original application filed March 23, 1916, Serial No. 86,088. Dividedand this application filed August 18, 1921. Serial flo. 491,968.

- To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, FREDERICK L. FULLER, acitizen of the United States, residing at llion, in the county ofHerkimer and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Ticket-Printing Mechanism, of which I declare thefollowingto be a full, clear, and exact description. lhis inventionrelates to ticket issuing 1o machines and has more particular referenceto that class of machines adapted for use in issuing tickets forrailroad and steamship lines or other analogous uses.

The subject matter of the present application constitutes a division ofan application of Frederick L. Fuller, Serial No. 86,088, filed March23, 1916.

Certain of the constructions shown in the present application are notdescribed in detail herein as it is sought to cover those constructionsin the parent application and reference may be had to the same for adetailed description of those mechanisms.

The broad object of the invention is to provide a satisfactory machinefor use in the ticket ofices of rai1roads,--steamship lines and similarplaces where it is necessary to issue and accurately account for themoney received in payment for a number oif"difier-v ent kinds oftickets. In the present instance the machine is constructed to take careof both 'full and half-fare tickets good'between the station at whichthe issuing machine is located and each of a number of other stations.it will be apparent that the mechanism disclosed is capable ofembodiment either in part or as a whole in machines designed to serveother-purposes without departing from the broad spirit of the invention.

Another object of the invention. is to provide improved means forprinting upon tickets issued from a single strip the name or otherinformation pertaining to an one.

of the stations to which tickets are sol In the illustrative machine thenames of the stations are printed from type carriers ar-' ranged aroundthe periphery of a drum, in six rows of forty carriers each. This drumis arranged to be given both endwise'and rotary movement, thereby makingit possible to bring atype carrier in any'row in posi tion to cooperatewith a ticket printing platen. Two manipulative devices are provided,one to rotate the drum and the other to shift it endwise. Either ofthese devices erated simultaneously depending upon the adjustment to begiven to the drum.

After the station type carrying drum has been positioned, a devicenormally given an invariable extent of movement projects theselectedtype carrier to printing position and also locks the drumagainst movement. An invariably moved platen then presses the paperagainst the ty e carrier to print. One of the objects of the lnventionis to provide means for disabling the invariably moved platen inprinting operations where it is not desired to print the name of astation. With these and incidental objects in ,view,

, may be operated singly or both'may be opthe invention consists incertain novel fea- I tures of construction and combinations of parts,the essential elements of which are set forth in appended claims and apreferred form of embodiment of which is hereinafter set forth withreference to the drawin which accompany and form part of thisspecification.

(if said drawings: Figs. 1 and 1 combined com rise a front elevation ofthe assembled machine with certain of the "frames shown in outline. Fig.2 is a left side elevation of the machine with the outside casing andcertain parts of the mechanism omitted.

Fig. .3 is a detail of the station ty e cartherewith.

T Fig. 6' is adetailof the cam for operating the ticket severing knife.

Fig. 7 is a right hand detail of the cam for projecting the stationprinting type carr-iers to printing position.

Fig. 8 shows part of the driving mechanism.

I Fig. 9 is a cross section of certain "of the parts shown in Fig. 8;

Figs. 11 an 12 res ectively show the front and back of one of t etickets.

Fi 13 is aright hand sectional view of the tlcket numbering typecarriers and con- -nections for settlng them, and mechanism controlledby the total lever for preventing station type carriers from being movedto printing position.

Fig. 14 is a detail of the cam for driving 7 the. operating segment forone of the ticket feeding and printing cylinders. I

Fig. 15 is a-left hand view partly in section of the ticket and summarystrip print- I ingdevices.

Hg. 16 shows the platen operatin mechanism, also the ticket severing anticket delivering mechanism.

Fig. '17 is a detail view of the cam for actuating the impressionplaten.

Fig. 18 is a detail view of the cam for operating the platen to printfrom the station typecarriers and from the amount and ticket numberingtype carriers.

Fig. 19 is a top plan view of he printing mechanism assembled completewith the ex- 5 ception of the type carriers and the ticket carriage.

Fi' .20 is a detail'of the lever for rotating 1 the ticket type carrierdrum and the maand some of the total lever mechanism.

The machine shown in the drawings is, as hereinbefore stated,constructed to issue either full fare or half fare ticketsgood betweenthe station at which the machine is located and any one of two hundredand forty other stations. Either one or two tickets may be issued at anoperation as dec from varioust sired. All of the tickets are printed ahdsevered from a single blank ticket strip. When they are delivered fromthe machine they have printed on their faces the usual 4 invariablematter such as the name of the railway company, the name of the issuingstation and so on. This invariable matter is. printed from platesattached to one of the rolls for feeding the strip. In addition, eachticket hasprinted on its face the name of the destination station, anumber from which the cash value of the tickets sold to said station maybe ascertained, a character indicating whether the ticket is a full fareor a half fare,,and the-amount paid for the ticket. This additionalmatter is all printed e carriers adjusted to printing position either asa preliminary to or during a ticket issuing operation of the machine. Onthe back of each ticket is printed the date of issue and a consecutivenumber which increases by one as each ticket is issued. The date andconsecutive number are printed from type carriers mounted in.

one of the ticket strip feeding rollers in a manner well known in theart. Said feeding roller may also have attached thereto a type carryingplate toprint on the backs of the tickets any announcement or conditionof sale desired.

The plates or type carriers for printing the names of the variousdestination stations are mounted in parallel rows partially extendingaround the periphery of a drum. This drum, as before stated, may be bothrotated and shifted cndwise on its supporting shaft to bring any desiredone of the type carriers in position to print on the ticket.Inadditionto this the type carriers may be given a slight outwardmovement, to project the type carrier which is to print, far enough outof the to cooperate with a platen having a variable extent of impressiontaking movement. This outward movement of the positioned type carrier isefi'ected by a device which is given an invariable movement at eachticket issuing operation and is constructed not only to hold the typecarrier in printing position but also to lock the drum against movementuntilnear the end of the ticket printing operation. The parentapplication above referred to shows and describes two hundred and fortstation totalizers and one grand cash tota izer, but it is not thoughtnecessary to show and describe them herein as they are not directlyconcerned in the subject-matter claimed herein.

The printing mechanism is constructed to print tickets only duringticket issuing operations. The mechanism, however, comprises a summarystrip which is printed when taking a statement from the machine, as forexample, when the ticket office at which the machine is used is beingchecked up by the auditor. In taking the statement the machine isoperated a sufiicient number of times to clear each of the two hundredand forty totalizers, as described in the parent application, the nameof each station and the number taken from the corresponding totalizerbeing printed on the summary strip. The machine is then operated againto clear the cash totalizer and print the amount. on the strip. Thesummary strip isalways in position to print but in ticket issuingoperations impressions which would otherwise fall upon the strip aretaken by the ticket. In taking the statement from the machine, theticket feeding mechanism is disabled so that no ticket is fed intoposition to interfere with the printing of the strip. At the same timethe summary stri feeding mechanism, which is always ine ective durin-ticket printing operations, is rendere efiective sothat as the stationtotalizers are cleared and the station spoken of herein as the totallever.

names and totals printed by successive operations of the machine thestrip will be suitably spaced between the various print-- afterdescribed.

lngs.

When the total or sub-total of the amount contained in the cashtotalizer isprinted on the summary strip the machine must be operatedwith one of the station printing type carriers opposite the platen. lhenameof the station'cannot be printed, however, as the amount of the cashtotal is printed in the space in which the name of the station wouldappear .ifprinted. It is on this cash total printing operation that thedevice for projecting the station printing type carrier to printingposition is disabled.

After the summary strip is printed showing the name of each of the twohundred and forty stations and the number taken from the correspondingtotalizer, the auditor can ascertain the cash value of the tickets soldto each station by multiplying the number in question by the half farerate to that particular point.

sult compared with the cash on hand and the amount printed on the stripfrom the cash totalizer.

The keyboard of the machine comprises four banks of amount keys 50(Figs. 1 and 1 a bank of special keys '51, 52, and $5 3 controlling amachine lock and motor 00a,- nections, and a lever 54- which is usuallyThe keyboard also comprises a lever 55 by means of which the stationtype carrier drum may be rotated and a handle 56 by which the drum maybe shifted endwise, that is laterally of the machine; The amount keys 50are depressed at the beginning of an 'operation'to set up the fare orcash value .of the ticket, the full fare key 51 or the half fare ticket52 then being depressed to release the driving mechanism and control thedifierential operation of the units actuator for the ticket totalizen.The key 53 is operated only to release the machine lock and close themotor circuit in opv erations to clear ticket totalizers and print thetotals on the summary strip.

Driving mechanism.

The driving mechanism comprises a shaft designated by the numeral 57 inthe various figures. This shaft extends the width of the machine and isgiven either one or two complete" rotations, dependingupon the result tobe obtained, by means of either a motor (not shown) or an operatinghandle 60. Normally, that is, in ,ticket pr nting operations, the shaftmakes but a single ro-- tation. it also makes but a single rotation.

in clearing each ticket totalizer and print ing the total number on thesummary strip,

but when two tickets are to be issued and in The various products canthen be added together and the re- 7 operations to print totals orsub-totals from the cash totalizer, the shaft is permitted to make tworotations by mechanism hereinfully shown and described in Letters Patentof'the United States No. 1,242,170, granted to F. L. Fullenthepresentapplicant, on August 9, 1917. It is sufficient to state that uponoperation of a special key or adiustment of the lever 54 to certainpositions, etching mechanism is disabled by movement of a plate 69 (Fig.5) permitting the shaft 58 to be rotated a short distance clockwise(Fig. 8) by a spring 59, thereby releasing the driving mechanism andclosing the motor circuit. The spring 59 acts through an arm 61 fast onthe shaft 58 to oscillate the shaft an extent limited by a stud 62 onsaid arm and the upper end of a slot 63 in a plate 64. This plate alsohas a bayonet slot 65 through which projects a stud 66 on the rear endof an arm 67 pivoted at 68 to the side frame of the machine. 0n the arm67 is a roller-71 projecting into a cam groove 72 formed in the side ofa gear 73 rotatably mounted one stud 74 pro'ecting from the machineframe. The gear 3 meshes with a gear 75 fast to the driving shaft 57 andis twice the diameter of said gear 75 so that for each rotation of thedriving shaft 57 the gear 73 makes half of a rotation. Near the end ofeach half rotation of the gear 7 3 the plate 64 is reci rocated by thecam oove 72 and arm 6 first downward and is en back to originalposition. of the engagement of the upper end of the slot 63 with thestud 62 the shaft 58 will be rocked slightly counterclockwise beyond thenormal position in which it is shown in Fig. 8, the purpose being torestore the machine locking mechanism to efi'ective condition. and torelease depressed keys as hereinafter explained.

,W'hen the driving mechanism-is to operate twice the plate Gels drawnforward so that the portion 81 of'the slot 65 is in alinement with thestud 66 during the first half of a rotation of the gear 73 in whichposition the shaft 58 is not moved. Shortly after the firsthalf rotationis completed the plate ea is restored to its ori inal position so thatthe movement'imparte' to the arm 67 during the second half of therotation of the gear 73 will rock the shaft 58 backward asaboveexplained to lock-the driving mechanism against further movementand incidentally to release any depressed keys. The connections wherebythe late 64 is moved to efiect the results state will be described later1 On account Amozmt dflerential and statioh-total izez dz'fierentz'al.

The four 'banks of amount keys 50 (Fig. 1 control difierential mechanismwhich is illustrated and described in the parent application and also inLetters Patent of the United States No. 1,230,864 granted'to W. i

I A. Chryst on June 26, 1917.

The difierential mechanism for operating the two hundred and fortyticket totalizers is located tothe left of the amount keys 50 and isdescribed in the parent application. These two differential mechanismsare not illustrated and described herein and reference may be had tosaid application for a description thereof.

Station printing type carriers.

The type carries for printing the names of the various stations are asbest shown in Figs. 3 and 4, mounted in a drum 520 located in the lowerfront (Fig. 2) of the 'machine. The drum has a spline and grooveconnection 522 with a tube 523 rot-atablybring the row containing the.type carrier which is to print above a printing platen and is rotated byturning the tube 523.v to bring said type carrier intoprinting'.positlon.

Rotative movement is imparted to the '1 tube and drum by movement of thehandle or lever 55 (Fig. 2). Rigid with the lever is atoothed segment526 meshing with a gear 527 fast to a short shaft 528 journalled in theadjacent machine frame. Attached to the other end of the shaft is a gear529 meshing with a lar er gear 530 journalled on a stud 531 carrie bythe machine frame. This gear 530 in turn meshes with a gear 532 fastenedto the'left end of the tube 523. The lever'55 is adjustable to fortydifli'erent positions and this movement, through the intermediategearing described, permits corresponding adjustment of the type carrier'drum 520. v

The endwise movement of the drum 520 along the tube 523 is imparted bmeans of the handle 56 (Figs. 3 and 4). This handle is rigidly securedto the rectangular frame 237 previously mentioned. The frame is slidablymounted on the tube 523 and a rod 536. Said rod is provided with sixnotches 537, one for each position to which handle 56 has a manually'operable spring latch 538 tocooperate with these notches and therebysecure exact lateral alignment.

of the drum as a preliminary to the operation of the machine.

The station name printing type carriers 524 'are in the form of barshaving their bases resting against the periphery of the drum. Each ofthe type bars has. a small yoke 541 of approximatdythe same length asthe type bar. The side portions of'these yokes are fastened to the typebars. and extend through openings in the periphery of the drum.'Compressed between the cross plates of the yokes 541 and the peripheryof the drum may be adjusted laterally and the the drum are springs 542serving to hold the type bars in normal position that is,

against the drum. In printing operations the positioned type carrier isprojected from the prriphery of the drum so thatonly the carrier whichis to print will be-in position to cooperate with the printing platen.

The device for projecting the type carriers is in the form of a yoke,the cross bar 543 of which extends through the drum above the printingline. The side arms 544 of the yoke are fastened to a rock shaft 545 andare far enough apart on the shaft to permit endwise movement of the drumto any of the six positions. The cross bar has a portion 546 on itslower edge to engage the yoke 541 of the type bar which is to beprojected and also has slots 547 to engage the side plates 548 of thedrum. The bottoms of the slots 547 are beveled to engage notches formedin the plates 548. The arrangement vented by disabling the operatingconnections on cash total-and sub-total printing operations. In order torock the shaft 545,

an arm 5481 attachedto the shaft has loosely connected thereto a link549 (Figs. 3' and 13 The rear end of the link 549 is pivoted on a stud550'on an arm 551 loose on the at eachoperation of the machinebut thisis preshaft 418. The-'stud550 is normally engaged by a hook 553 on alink 554 pivoted at 555 to a bell crank 556, loose on a stud 428. Theother arm of the bell crank 556 carries an anti-friction roller 558 j(Fig. 7) projecting into a cam groove 559 formed in the side of the disk484 (attached to the driving shaft 57 The shape of the cam groove issuch that at the beginning of an operation the bell crank 556 will berocked counter-clockwise (Fig. 13) thereby swinging the bar 543 (Fig. 3)down to project the 4 posipositioned type carrier to printing 1 cranktion and lock the drum 52Q. The 10 556 is not returned to its originalposition until just at the end of the rotation of the shaft 57 so thatthe type carrier remains projected and the drum locked for substantiallythe entire rotation of the driving shaft. In cash total and sub-totaltaking operations the hook 553 is disengaged from the stud 550. As aresult, the bar 543 will not be moved down and no type carrier 524 willbe projected to print. The manner in which the hook is disengaged'willbe described later.

Mechanismis providedwhereby if either the lever 55 or the handle 56 is,at an inter mediate position, operation of the machine will he preventdand an operation of either will be prevented during an operation of themachine. This machanism for the lever 55 is shown inFig. 20. Rigid withthe lever is an arm 576 carrying a stud 577 suitably shaped to cooperatewith teeth 578 in the outer edge of a plate 579, This plate is supportedat its lower end by a pin 580 carried by an arm of a bell crank 585pivoted at 581 to the frame 583. At its upper end the plate 579 issimilarly supported at 582 on a bell crank 586 pivoted at 584. Pivotedat 587 and 588 to the bill cranks 585 and 586 respectively is a bar 589having a shoulder 590 to cooperate with a shoulder 591 formed on acollar 592 attached to the rock shaft 58. This shaft it will be recalledcontrols the latching mechanism and in order to release the mechanismfor the machine to operate the shaft must rotate in a clockwisedirection as viewed in Fig. 20. As the lever 55 is moved from'oneposition to anotlrr the stud 577 will ride over the points of the teeth578 thereby depressing the plate 579 and swinging the arms 585 and 586and the bar 589 upward against the tension of aspring 593 to carry theshoulder 590 over the shoulder 591 and thereby prevent the releasingmovement of the rock shaft 58. As the stud 577 passes into one of thenotches between teeth 578, the spring 593 will withdraw the shoulder 590so that the shaft 58 will be free to rock.

The devices whereby the machine is locked against operation if the.handle 56 is not correctly set are shown in Figs. 3 and 5. Attached tothe rear of the frame 237 is a cross bar 601 having a tooth 602 for eachof the six lateral positions of the frame, each tooth, when the frame isin the corresponding position, resting against a roller 603 on an arm604 rigid with a sleeve 605 loose on the shaft 509. Near its right handend the sleeve 605 (Fig. 5) carries a yoke 607, carrying a stud 608. Asthe frame 237 is moved awav from one of its six lateral positions thetooth 602 will be carried out of contact with the roller 603 and aspring 609 will rotate the sleeve 605 and yoke 607 to carry the stud 608down to the rear of a tail 610 formed on a supporting arm 84 for a.temporary locking detent 82 of the special key bank. It is clear thatthis will prevent de ressing any of the special keys until the me 237'is again in one of the six'positions where a tooth 602 will be effectiveto hold the stud 608 up out of the path of the tail 610.

Printing mechanism. The printing mechanism is located in the base of themachine and comprises mechanism for printing tickets and feeding themthrough a slot 621 (Figs. 1 and 1 and mechanism for printing a summarystrip which :is fed out through a slot 622.

The ticket strip passes from a supply roll (not shown) up through aguide 623 (Fig. 15) and between feeding rollers 624 and 625. The lefthand ends of these two rollers are equipped with interme'shed gears 626ahd 627 the latter meshing with a gear 628 at tached to a short shaft629 journalled in up wardly extending portions 630 formed on the printerframe 631. Attached to the shaft 629 is a large gear 632 mesh'in with agear 633 fastened to the driving 5 aft 57. The construction is such thatfor each rot-ation of the driving shaft 57 the two rollers 624 and 625will be given a complete rotation. The roller 624 has flanges 634 whichcooperate with the roller 625 to feed the ticket strip the distancerequired for a. single ticket. Positioned on the periphery of the roller624 and between the flanges 634 is an electrotype which prints on thefaces of the tickets the name of the railroad company and otherinvariable matter such as the name of thestation at which the machine islocated.

From between the rollers 624 and 625 the ticket strip passes through asecond chute or guide 635 (Fig. 16) over a stationary knife 636 andunder a knife 637, rotatably mounted in a stationary frame 638. Rigidlyattached to the right hand end of the knife 637 is an arm 639 (Figs. 15and 19) connected to a pitman 640 slotted to engage the shaft 629 andcarrying an antifriction roller 6411 projecting into a cam groove 6421(Figs. 6, and 15) formed in the side of a disk 643 fastened to the shaft629. The groove 6421 is so shaped as to draw the pit-v man 640 rearwardas soon as the ticket has been fed by the rollers'624 and 625, therebysevering a ticket from the ticket strip.

As the ticket strip is fed over the knife 636 its forward'end is guidedon to a table 641 (Fig.16) forming a part of a carriage for swinging theticket back and forth between I the position where the name of thestation to which the ticket is issued is printed and the 1 positionwhere the amount and ticket numbers are printed. As the knife 637 isrotated and the ticket severed, the knife carries the rear edge of theticket down in front of 2. lug 642 formed on a table 6431 which is alsoa part of the ticket carriage. The

tables 641 and 6431 are formed respectively on plates 644 and 6451 Theplate 644 has a tail 646 which normall rests against a shoulder 647formed on t e plate 645. .The

plate 645 is pivoted on a stud 648 attached to the upper end of a. link650 and extending through a slot 6402 in the plate 644 and a slot 649 ina stationary guiding plate 6401. The lower end of the link 650 isconnected at 651 with an arm of a bell crank 652 pivoted on a rod 653.To the other arm 654 of the bell crank a pitman. 655 is connected. Thispitman is slotted to engage the shaft 629 and station printing typecarrier at the station printing line 5411 (Fig. 15). The ticket carriageis then swun back part of the way toward its first position so as tobring the ticket in position to receive an impression from the amountand consecutive number t pe carriers at their printing line 54125 fterthe impression 'last mentioned is taken, the carriage. is again swuntoward the front. This movement, which is greater than the first forwardmovement, is to "release the ticket from the carriage and enage it withrollers 661 and 662 which are t en rotated to feed the ticket on out ofthe machine. The ticket is released from the swinging carriage by movingthe tail 646 (Fig. 16) out of engagement with the shoulder 647 on theplate 645 so that movement of the plate 645 relative tothe plate 644 ispermitted. During .this relative movement, the block 642 pushes theticket forward into engagement with the rollers 661 and 662. The tail646 is disengaged from the shoulder 647 by a stud 663 on the plate 644coming in contact with a portion 664 of the stationary guiding frame.When i the" stud strikes the portion mentioned, the

tail 646 is swung up out of engagement with the stud 647 and theplate'644 is held stathe final movement'of the tionary during link650and plate 645 to engage the ticket with the rollers 661 and 662. Whenthe bell crank 652 and link 650 are returned to the starting (point thestud 648 will enga e of the slot 6402 and draw t e plate 644 along. Astop 665 on the guiding plate 6401 will, during the'final movement ofthe link 650, contact the stud 663 and swing the 'tail 646 back intoengagement with the shoulder 647.

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Impressions from the station type carriers and the amount and numbertype carriers are taken by a laten 666 (Figs. 16 and 19) fastened to a saft 667, journalled in side plates 668 with the ends of the shaftresting in open slots 669 in the u per ends of arms 670 fast'on a shaft653. ivoted to an arm 6701 also fast on the shaft 653 is a pitman 671 Fi16 and 18), slotted to straddle the s a 629. The pitman carries a roller672 projecting into a, cam groove 673 in a'disk 674 rigid on the shaft629. The groove 673 is so formed as to swing the arms 670 rearwardshortly after the shaft 629 has completed the first half of itsrotation.- By this time the ticket carriage will have carried the ticketto the printing line 5411 and back again to the printing line 5412 ofthe amount and number printing type" carriers. The arms 670 are thenswung back to their original position- When the ticket carnageis swungforward to the printing line 5411, the platen 666 is raised to take animpression from the projected type carrier 524. When it is swungrearward into posit-ion to cooperate with the printing line 5412, theplaten is again raised to print on the ticket the amount and ticketnumber. These impression taking movements of the platen are imparted bya plate 678-having a slot-675 cooperating with a stud 676 forming apivotal connection between one of a pair of plates 668 in which theplaten shafts 667 is journalled and a small arm 677 which is in turn.pivotedto one of the arms 670. Rigid with theplate 678 is a plate 1697secured to a shaft 679 carryin an arm 680 having an adjustableconnection 681 supporting the forward end of a pitman 682. Thep'itman682 carries an anti-friction roller. 683 (Fig. 17) coopwith' a camgroove 684 in a cam disk 685 fast to the shaft 629. The groove 684 is soshaped as to rock the arm 680 and plate 678 twice, the first time in aclockwise direction Fig. 16) to raise the platen against the stationprinting typecarrier and the second time in a counter-clockwise di-'rection. to raise the platen against the amount and numberprintingtype-carriers.

In the foregoing it was stated td'iat when the'tail 646 of the/ticketcarriage plate was disengagedfrom the shoulder 647, the-plate 645continued its movement, thereby causing the block' 642 to push theticket into engagement with the feeding rollers 661 and 662. The roller662 is a datin and numbering cylinder such as is fully s own and de- VU. S. Letters Patent 541 247, issued June 18, 1895, to W. Murphy. ,uch

cylinders have been used in. cash registers for many years and need nodetailed .desoription here. It is suflicient to state that the roller662 contains the usual dating and numbering type carriers. and knobs6621 and struction is well known in the art.

6622 respectively for setting the date wheels and turning theconsecutive numbering wheels to zero. After the ticket is in engagementwith the rollers 661 and 662, the rollers are rotated, thereby causingthe consecutive number and date to be printed on the back of, theticket, further movement of the rollers feeding'the ticket out throughthe slot 621 in the base of the machine. In order to feed the tickets,the rollers 661 and 662 are provided with intermeshed' gears 686 and 687respectively. Meshing with the gear 687 is a segment 688 pivoted to theprinter frame at 689 and having a slot 690 to clear the rod 653.Pivotally connected to the segment 688 at 691 is a pitman 692. Thispitman carries a roller 693 (Fig. 14). cooperating with acam groove 694in a disk 695 fast to the shaft 629. The cam groove is shaped first todraw the segment rearward slightly so as to impart a slight reversemovement to the rollers 661 and 662 and is then given a forward thrustto rock the segment 688 and impart feeding and printing movement to therollers. The segment 688 is then returned to its normal position.

In order to make it possible to prevent the tickets from being-fed insummary strip printing operations, the feeding roller 625 is mounted onan eccentric 696 (Fig. 15) which may be turnedby means of a knob .697 tomove the roller 625 out of feeding Y con- The summary strip, which, itwill be remembered is printed only in taking a statement from themachine, passes from a supply roll, not shown, up through a guide 701(Figs. 15 and 16), under guides 702 and 703, around the platen roller666, through a guide 704 and between the platen roller 666 and a feedingroller 705. The strip then passes through a guide 706 into a deliverychute 707. It is apparent that the summary strip is raised at each timethe platen 666 is given an impression taking movement and that the stripwould be printed upon at every operation of the machine if it were notfor th fact that in ticketiprinting operations, the printing falls uponthe tickets which are interposed between .the strip and the typecarriers.

The strip is fed out of the machine by rotating the feeding roller 705.For this purpose the shaft 711, to which the feeding roller 705 isattached, is provided with ratchet 712 (Figs. 15 and 19). Looselymounted on the shaft 711 is a plate 713 to which is pivoted a springpressed pawl 714 cooperating with the ratchet 712. Rigid through themedium of a sleeve 7131 with the plate 713 is an arm 710 carrying a stud715 normally cooperating with the curved edge 716 of an arm 717 pivotedas at 71 8 to an auxiliary frame 730. Pivoted we relationship with theroller 624. This side of the arm 717 is a link 719 con nected at 720 toan arm 721 fast on a tube 722 on the shaft 504. Pivoted to thestationary plate 730 (Figs. 15 and 19) is a hooked arm 723,' the forwardend ofv which has a slot .724 engaging a stud 725. This stud is attached to the side of the arm 717 and projects through;a slot 7181 inthe frame, 730 into the slot 724. In preparing the machine forsummarystrip printing operations, the total taking lever 54 will, throughconnections explained later, rock, the tube or sleev 722counter-clockwise (Fig. 15) and thereby swing the arm 717 up out ofengagement with the stud 715. This movement of the arm 717 will causethe stud 725 to swing the arm 723 down to position the nose 727 thereofin the path of th stud 715. When the platen arms 670 are swung rearwardto amount and number printing position, the' stud 715 will engage thenose 727 and swing the arm 710 and plate 713 counter-clockwise about theshaft 711. During thiscounterclockwise movement, the pawl 714 will rideidly over ratchet 712. As the platen carrying arms 670 return to theirforward position the stud 715 will be carried along the 'cam dge 728 andthe arm 710 and plate 713 will be rotated about the shaft 711, therebycausing the pawl 714 to turn ratchet 712 and roller 705 to feed thesummary strip.

The amount type carriers 731 and the ticket number printing typecarriers 734 are shown in Figs. 15 and 13 respectively. However, themechanism for positioning these type carriers is not shown and describedherein, and reference may be had to the parent application for saiddescription. As before pointed out, in operations to print cash totalsor sub-totals on the summary strip, the mechanism for projectingthestation type carrier 524 which is at the time in printing position isdisabled. The reason for this is that in printing amounts on the summarystrip, the amounts fall in the space where the name of the station wouldotherwise appear. It is apparent that on the other hand the amount typecarriers must be prevented from printing on the strip in all summarytaking operations to list the names of the stations and the numberstaken from their respective totalizers. This is effected by turning theamount type carriers backward from zero so as to present blank portionsat the printing line. as was fully illustrated and described in theparent application.

Total later and cOnfmUin/g mechanism.

The total lever 54 and mostof the controlling mechanism associatedtherewith is fully shown and described in the Fuller patent previouslyreferred to and only those features of this mechainsm which are directlyinvolved in the. present invention

